CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF CAROLINE BOECKMAN
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THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS - JUNE 22, 1939
CAROLINE BOECKMAN 83, DIES IN FORDYCE
CAME TO CEDAR COUNTY FROM GERMANY IN 1867; BURIED MONDAY
After 72 years residence in America and Cedar county, Mrs. Caroline
Boeckman, 83 died at her house in Fordyce Friday night June 16, at
nine o'clock. She had been ill six months.
Born in Oldenburg, Germany, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Berand Eichmann. In 1868 she was married to Henry Boeckmann, at St.
Helena. Her husband died July 2, 1930. Nine children and one sister
survive.
The children are John, Fordyce, Barney, Wessington Springs, SD.,
August, Mitchell, SD., Mrs. Charles Belle, St. Helena, Mrs. Steve
Schulte, Orient, SD., Mrs. Carl Parnell, Mitchell, SD., Mrs. Charles
Haas, yankton and Miss Theresa at home.
Mrs. Boeckman resided on a farm near St. Helena until 1917 when she
and her husband moved to Fordyce where the Boeckman home has been
since that time.
Funeral Services were Monday morning at nine o'clock from St. John's
Catholic Church in Fordyce, of which Mrs. Boeckman was a devout member.
The Rev. Daniel Reifenrath officiated. Burial was in St. John, the
Baptist cemetery. Pallbearers included John Bushcelman, Raymond
Walters, Joseph Schumacher, Otto Phillips, Joseph Wielbelhaus and John
Noecker.